Hello to all. I just received my pi today and i am very happy with it.
I just have a small problem accessing the pi from a windows p.c. using SSH, it just says access denied.
I changed the password for user and root to something personal, is there anything else i should do ?
The ubuntu server i can access fine from the same p.c.

double posting here
-a- no reason to dig out a 5 year old post
-b- a one year old setup? why not do a new setup with RASPBIAN STRETCH IMAGE
-c- what instructions do not work?
if you have no HDMI..TV / mouse / keyboard ( called headless )
you can not enable SSH by sudo raspi-config
but you still can setup by the "ssh file trick "
like from a windows PC with card reader you create a file namedssh
( what can be empty ) at the FAT partition of the SD card.
after ( this way to enabled SSH ) you can login PUTTY / ssh .. and will get a warning to change password.

a) This was the only post I could find that fitted the situation
b) I have no idea what Raspbian stretch image is
c) I cannot log on/into the Pi and Putty will not connect.
d) After this you lost me completely.
e) Perhaps I had better leave it for another year and it may get better…ha-ha

Ahhh a very interesting, but totally frustrating device. No wonder they introduce this to 5-year olds at UK school and not 50-year olds…. like the phone, I ask my 9-year old daughter to make it better when it fails. I have a Galaxy Note 2…. probably need to update that as well.

I love the whole Pi idea. I asked the school here in the Australian Bush about introducing the Pi to the kids…. well even the IT guy at school looked at me blankly. This is typical of education down under…

I am an advocate, but still confuses the hell out of me. Probably must put it back in the draw…. or re-install the whole OS…I remember than was less then fun.

Of course if your sole access is via a putty connection ie you are running your Raspberry headless you won't be able to run raspi-config until you have figured the SSH connection.

In the Putty configuration window in the Left panel there is a section labelled Connection with a subsection SSH

This has two options 2 which is my default and 1 which is also labelled as (INSECURE).

I make no guarantee that this is the answer but it may be.

Remember if all else fails you can image either a new SD or re-image your existing SD if it has no saved data.

This will take your SSH login back to the default and at that stage you can reset your password to something other than the default.

The whole point of having the Operating System on an SD card was that swapping it out or having multiple copies was no big deal.

It would probably be a good idea to get yourself familiar with the setup before you try changing passwords. It is not like you are running anything vital if you are you should probably not be doing this on a Raspberry at least until you are thoroughly familiar.

I am afraid I don't qualify as a 50 year old as I passed that milestone over 10 years go.

Noob is not derogatory the noob is just the lower end of the noob--geek spectrum being a noob is just your first step towards being an uber-geek

If you find a solution please post it in the wiki the forum dies too quick